The war will have incalculable implications for Europe – and yet, the chancellor has held back from publicly challenging an increasingly erratic Donald Trump
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You could be forgiven for thinking Friedrich Merz would rather be anywhere but Germany of late.
But hopes that his stop in Washington this week would provide the chancellor even a brief respite from woes at home were dashed by Donald Trump’s risky Iran gamble.
Only just back from high-stakes trade talks in China, the unpopular Merz boarded the Konrad Adenauer, the government’s jet, bound for the US after the weekend’s seismic events.
